‘There’s a lot of emotion tied up in my career and writing this book has released some of it…’ Never a truer word spoken from Tommy Byrne and that’s only the start of it.
Crashed and Byrned: The Greatest Racing Driver You Never Saw by Tommy Byrne and Mark Hughes tells the story of Tommy Byrne, an Irish-born adrenalin-addict who came painfully close to reaching the top of F1.
In the early days of his career, Tommy, a self confessed knacker from Dundalk, did anything he could to make enough bucks to race cars. Most notable is when he drove around a crippled gentleman called Crawford. Crawford regularly screamed at Tommy “fuck shit bastard boy’ before soiling himself in the car.
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